Dopamine Operates as a Subsecond Modulator of Food Seeking

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1265-1271

  Roitman, Mitchell F ^a   Stuber, Garret D ^a   Phillips, Paul E M ^a   Wightman, R Mark ^a   Carelli, Regina M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accumbens; Dopamine; Feeding; Motivation; Reward; Taste

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBER; DOPAMINE; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLIC POTENTIOMETRY; DOPAMINE RELEASE; FOOD SEEKING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MALE; MICROELECTRODE; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME; TRAINING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; DOPAMINE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FOOD PREFERENCES; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SELF ADMINISTRATION; SUCROSE; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 1242269217     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3823-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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